I believe Duncan’s posts are cross-posted from his Substack to LessWrong due to popular demand. In that sense, Duncan can still be viewed as somewhat active.
However, the “(inactive)” in the name serves a purpose, which (very confident inference) is to public declare Duncan’s relationship with the LessWrong comments section, which (reasonable inference) is somewhere between “I don’t participate in the LessWrong comments section” and “I find some comments valuable and some comments anti-valuable, but want to specifically discharge my usual social obligation to read and respond to comments on my posts because this would be net-negative for me.”
[comment epistemic status: quick and somewhat imprecise to serve the purpose of quickly answering the implied question of Keenen’s comment.]
Suggestion: naming the account “Duncan (crossposting)” or “Duncan (not reading the comments)” might lead to less confusion.
I have been confused several times by Duncan’s posting and commenting and assumed it was just normal some normal human grappling with a vice stuff. If it really is meant to be about commenting or something, I want to flag that this is not getting across for me or anyone I’ve directly discussed a Duncanpost with (who has mentioned the username).
I believe Duncan’s posts are cross-posted from his Substack to LessWrong due to popular demand. In that sense, Duncan can still be viewed as somewhat active.
However, the “(inactive)” in the name serves a purpose, which (very confident inference) is to public declare Duncan’s relationship with the LessWrong comments section, which (reasonable inference) is somewhere between “I don’t participate in the LessWrong comments section” and “I find some comments valuable and some comments anti-valuable, but want to specifically discharge my usual social obligation to read and respond to comments on my posts because this would be net-negative for me.”
[comment epistemic status: quick and somewhat imprecise to serve the purpose of quickly answering the implied question of Keenen’s comment.]
Suggestion: naming the account “Duncan (crossposting)” or “Duncan (not reading the comments)” might lead to less confusion.
I have been confused several times by Duncan’s posting and commenting and assumed it was just normal some normal human grappling with a vice stuff. If it really is meant to be about commenting or something, I want to flag that this is not getting across for me or anyone I’ve directly discussed a Duncanpost with (who has mentioned the username).